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CHARACTERS:

NARRATOR

REVEREND PARRIS – (ELIZABETH’S FATHER)

ELIZABETH PARRIS – (REVEREND PARRIS DAUGHTER)

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS – (ELIZABETH’S COUSIN)

TITUBA – (SERVANT)

PURITAN WOMAN 1

PURITAN WOMAN 2

PURITAN WOMAN 3

PURITAN WOMAN 4

PURITAN WOMAN 5

PURITAN MAN 1

PURITAN MAN 2

PURITAN MAN 3

PURITAN MAN 4

PURITAN MAN 5

SCRIPT:

– Lights On –

NARRATOR: In 1630, one thousand puritans left England, tired of King Charles of telling them what and how to believe. They traveled in a ship, to a strange world to live in a place where they could live by their religion, and they landed in New England. The people who settled in Salem, Massachusetts, brought their own religion, customs, and superstitions, such as their belief in witchcraft. They wanted religion freedom, but only for themselves, and they were not tolerant of people who believe differently than they did. If someone disagreed, they felt he was helping the devil. It was January 1692, when strange behaviors were exhibited by two Salem girls.

ACT I – AT REVEREND PARRIS HOUSE

(Elizabeth, Abigail, and Tituba are in the living room sitting on the floor)

ELIZABETH: I’m bored!.

ABIGAIL: It’s so cold that we can’t go outside to play!.

ELIZABETH: Should we read the bible again?.

ABIGAIL: We already read it four times!.

TITUBA: Girls, you shouldn’t complain. You know what happens to those who complain too much.

ABIGAIL: I know. Poor Mrs. Parke, she was forced to wear a bridle like a horse to keep her from talking.

ELIZABETH: And what about little Tommy!. He was punished for saying the sermon was boring!.

ABIGAIL: What did they do to him?.

ELIZABETH: They sat him with his hands and feet locked into a wooden chair, and all the neighbors laughed at him!.

ABIGAIL: Poor Tommy, no wonder why he doesn’t want to speak anymore!.

ELIZABETH:(to Tituba) Since we cannot go out, tell us one of your stories.

TITUBA: You mean about witches?.

ELIZABETH AND ABIGAIL: Yes!. Tell us what else they do.

TITUBA: Well, where I come from…

ABIGAIL: Where do you come from?.

TITUBA: From Barbados, Abigail.

ELIZABETH:(to Tituba) Keep going.

TITUBA:(in a low voice) Well, where I come from, witches can sink ships, they can make thunder, and they rattle dishes.

ELIZABETH: Oh, I love to be scared by your stories of devils and witches!.

ABIGAIL: What do they look like?.

TITUBA: You mean, the witches?.

ABIGAIL: Yes!. Tell me, are they ugly?.

TITUBA: They have big warts or moles in their faces, and they ride on sticks to different places.

ABIGAIL: Tell us our fortune again!. (Tituba gets some stones from her dress and throws them into the floor) What does it say?.

TITUBA: Mmmm…I know WHO bit you the other day.

ABIGAIL: Who or What?.

TITUBA: Who!. It was an invisible force!.

ABIGAIL: An evil force?.

TITUBA: Yes!. You should wash your injury every hour for nine days, and if you don’t…

ABIGAIL: What Tituba?.

TITUBA: HE will come again, and this time he will take you along with HIM!.

PURITAN WOMAN 2: They are telling the truth!. I heard them making animal sounds!.

PURITAN WOMAN 3: But she’s only five years old!.

REVEREND PARRIS: Oh, Lord!. They should be arrested and incarcerated!.

PURITAN MAN 4: There are witches all over Salem!.

PURITAN WOMAN 4: Even dogs are behaving strange lately, as if they were possessed by the devil!.

PURITAN WOMAN 5: Satan is recruiting witches and wizards to work for him!.

REVEREND PARRIS: They all should be tried on charges of witchcraft!.

PURITAN MAN 5: All Salem witches must die!.

REVEREND PARRIS: Come on, let’s get them!.

EVERYBODY: Yes!.

(They leave the stage)

-Lights Off-

(The Narrator is in the middle of the room/stage)

-Lights On-

NARRATOR: More than one hundred people were tried on charges of witchcraft. Twenty people and two dogs were put to death. But when the girls accused the Reverend’s wife, who was the most godly person in town, everyone knew they were lying. There was a public apology by the leaders of the town, and they cleared the names of the people who had been executed. It was the end of a public belief in witchcraft.